{"id":245322,"date":"2017-07-27T07:30:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T14:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=245322"},"modified":"2017-07-27T07:30:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T14:30:29","slug":"jon-jones-no-love-dana-white-havent-answered-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/jon-jones\/jon-jones-no-love-dana-white-havent-answered-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones has no love for Dana White: &#8220;I haven\u2019t answered any of his calls&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, in the main event of UFC 214, former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones will attempt to reclaim his title from the current champion and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-jon-jones-and-daniel-cormier-spit-fire-during-ufc-214-press-conference\/\">his arch rival Daniel Cormier<\/a>. In the buildup to this fight, much has been made of Jones&#8217; last-minute withdrawal from July 2016&#8217;s UFC 200, when he was last scheduled to meet Cormier. UFC President Dana White in particular has had plenty to say about the former champ&#8217;s withdrawal from the card. And apparently, Jones is getting tired of it.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/boxing\/la-sp-ufc-jones-white-20170726-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lance Pugmire of the LA Times<\/a>, Jones explained that he is giving the UFC boss the silent treatment.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cDana White has reached out to me on at least four occasions, and I haven\u2019t answered any of his calls or any of his text messages \u2014 that\u2019s the reason we haven\u2019t spoken,&#8221; Jones said.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jones then explained why he hasn&#8217;t been answering White&#8217;s calls:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI just feel like when you\u2019re making the company money and you\u2019re a pay-per-view draw and you\u2019re ultimately putting money in his pocket, then you mean a lot to him,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cThe moment you aren\u2019t those things, you mean nothing to him, and he\u2019s done a decent job of showing that. I felt completely abandoned by him \u2026 in a situation when I needed him the most.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI feel like he\u2019s shown me his true colors, and now I have no desire to pretend like he cares about me or that we\u2019re friends.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cUnless he has something real pressing to talk to me about, I\u2019d rather just talk to [WME-IMG exec] Ari Emanuel. As of now, I look at Ari as my boss and as Dana as more the face and the voice of UFC.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think of the apparent beef between Jon Jones and Dana White?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 7\/27\/2017. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, in the main event of UFC 214, former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones will attempt to reclaim his title from the current champion and his arch rival Daniel Cormier. 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